Society by justifying torture neglects the rule of law and allows violence says Prasanna Vithanage

Most
criminals are not enslaved by law. Anyhow they get release. Instead of
taking some of the suspects into law, they die in a conflict of opinion
that occurred when they were arrested by the police. We often hear shot
dead by police or suspect committed suicide during police custody. There
is no question about this. Everyone accepts it. Why the society is on
that level? Some categories of society believe that criminals can
survive by law. In what kind of assassination we have to solve these
problems. We’ve been thinking about this with what we have seen over
theyears. This is the case with a manifestation of the rule of law and
violence.

“Take
the Gerad Perera’s incident in Wattala. Police arrested him mistakenly
and beaten him until death. Did they have a right to attack like that?
He is not the person who committed a wrong or broke the law. The
pressure from the overheads of the police also has an urgent need for an
offender. The innocent victim is convicted. This is not something we
should allow”.

Higher
ranked police officer brought a pressure to the lower policeman somehow
to present a wrongdoer immediately. We must raise the law to prevent
this from happening. The law should not be able to take ordinary people.
And police should never takeover law as they wanted. The society should
be aware of this.

“The
police in this country think that the only way to get the statement
from the suspects is by using torture as a method, there is a history of
disappearances in our country. But still there is no proper steps taken
for these things. There is no assurance that the testimony is a
wrongful and inhuman behavior. No government has been able to do justice
or bring out a proper solution to it until now.”